speculatory

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “speculatory”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

From Latin speculātōrius (“of or pertaining to spies or scouts”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: spec‧u‧la‧to‧ry

Adjective

speculatory (comparative more speculatory, superlative most speculatory)

1. Intended or adapted for viewing or espying; having oversight.
   • 1815, Thomas Warton, The History and Antiquities of Kiddington:

     speculatory out-posts to the Akeman-street

2. Exercising speculation; speculative.
   • 1633, Thomas Carew, Coelum Britanicum:

     My privileges are an ubiquitary, circumambulatory, speculatory, interrogatory, redargutory and immunity over all the privy lodgings